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Tilden Park

2006 BAOC Club Championship

Date: (Sun.) Dec. 10, 2006
Location: Berkeley, CA
Event Directors: , - 510.409.9285
Course Setters: Evan Custer, Jay Hann
Type: B; 2006 BAOC Club Championships on a NEW MAP

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Event Write-Up

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The 2006 Club Championships were held on a new map of Tilden Park in Berkeley. A number of club members thought that we should not spend our money mapping this park because it is so steep and has a lot of fight, while others, notably former president Ian Tidswell, strongly urged that we do so since it is unusual to have a wilderness park so central to the populated area. It looks like Ian was right, because even though the area is steep and does have a lot of fight, with a good map, it is possible to set some interesting and challenging courses. Vladimir Zherdev did the mapping, and as usual, did an outstanding job. I think most people, even the skeptics, were pleasantly surprised at the end result.

All the usual suspects came out on top at this year’s version of the BAOC Club Championships. James Scarborough, Tapio Karras, Bruce Wolfe, and Joe Scarborough won their appropriate age group championships on the Blue, Red, Green, and Brown courses, respectively.

James Scarborough, long time BAOC’s highest-ranking runner and member of the US Team, had the fastest time on Blue, coming in 1:10 ahead of Mikkel Conradi, and completing the 6.9 km, 540 m climb course in a time of 1:20:02. James has recently moved back to the Bay Area and is starting up his own business, so we will be seeing a lot more of him at our local events. Pippa Whitehorse, a member of the British National Orienteering Team, was in San Francisco for an international geology meeting, and had a fabulous run, coming in just 14 seconds behind Mikkel, and was the fastest female runner in the Amazon class on the Blue course. Penny DeMoss also had a good run completing the difficult Blue course in 1:55:43, probably faster than many men half her age could do, and won the club title in the Amazon class.

Tapio Karras had a very good run and easily won the M45 class on the steep Red course with a time of 1:16:15. He only made one poor route choice, trying to crawl his way up the steep reentrant through dense undergrowth to control 11, instead of taking the higher ridge-trail route. Derek Maclean came in second, about 6 minutes behind Tapio. There were no female Red runners.

Another long time BAOC and former US Team member, Bruce Wolfe, won the M50 class on Green with a time of 48:44. He bobbled the second control, going down the steep hillside too far, but otherwise had a very strong run, and beat out 2nd-place finisher, Bob Cooley, by 3:20. Stephanie Maclean had an excellent time on Green, coming in fourth overall, and winning the F35 class.

Joe Scarborough, founder of the club, won the M65 class on Brown, with a time of 45:24. He did the 2.7 km, 175 m climb course about 10 minutes faster than second place finisher Harold DeMoss. Nancy Lindeman won the F55 class. Misha Lipatov had the fastest time on Brown, running in the open class with a time of 38:12.

Valeria Fedyk whizzed around the Yellow course and won the F14 class and had the fastest time on Yellow with a time of 26:26.

The two Kopisch brothers decimated the 1.1 km White course. Phillip edged out his brother Daniel by 27 seconds with a time of 9:19. Who says you can’t make the White course too easy. These boys are ready to move up a course.

Little 6-year-old Julia Doubson came in third overall on White, and won the F10 title with a time of 14:58. She is going to be a dynamite orienteer when she grows up if she continues to perform like this.

Congratulations again to the 2006 BAOC Club Champions:

    F-10  Julia Doubson
    M-12  Phillip Kopisch
    F-14  Valeria Fedyk
    F65+  Nancy Lindeman
    M65+  Joe Scarborough
    F35+  Stephanie Maclean
    M50+  Bruce Wolfe
    M35+  Tapio Karras
    Amazon (Female Blue Runner)  Penny DeMoss
    M-21+  James Scarborough

There were no juniors on the Orange course, but Sharif Taha and Jack Regan had the fastest time in 32:48. Former BAOC’er Steve Smith came up from San Diego and handily won the Long Orange course in 50:04.

Unfortunately, the inclement weather lowered attendance, particularly for the White and Yellow runners. Although it was sprinkling early in the morning, by about 10:30, the rain stopped, and the sun actually came out in the early afternoon. Because of the rain, the ground, rocks and vegetation were all a little slippery, but all in all, it was very pleasant running conditions.

The assembly area was at the Mineral Springs Group Picnic Area off of Wildcat Canyon Road, between the Botanic Garden and Inspiration Point. It turned out to be a nice area. There was a relatively big parking lot (free), toilets, multiple picnic tables, and partially up the hillside, which allowed the shorter courses to be designed in the nicer area without too much climb. There was also a nice trail down to Lake Anza, which provided some loop trails for the White and Yellow courses.

My general design of the courses was to try to optimize route choice, which after talking to the finishers and looking at RouteGadget, seems to have been effective. Because of the relatively extensive trail network, it was difficult to design long legs without them becoming pure trail runs. The well-mapped vegetation allowed testing people’s fine orienteering skills.

This event was largely successful because of the many people who volunteered to help. I really want to thank George Minarik, who was course consultant and vetter. He was extremely helpful in providing many suggestions for improving the courses. Jay Hann, Dennis Wildfogel, Rex Winterbottom, and Ian Tidswell also offered very helpful constructive comments.

Jay Hann put out all of the water and hung the White and Yellow controls early Sunday morning.

Bob Cooley was the prime person in getting Tilden mapped. In addition to supervising Zherdev, Bob also touched up a number of areas, particularly the areas around several of the controls. As usual, he did a great job in printing all of the maps. We do not really appreciate Bob enough for the great printing services he provides. The map quality at BAOC events is better than many "A" meets I have attended.

On the day of the event, a large crowd helped in the set-up process, including Michael Behrens, Harold and Penny DeMoss, Jim Fox, Jay Hann, and George Minarik.

Martin Kunz handled all of the registration by himself, not even being able to run because of recent surgery. Also, Anne Gorby came all the way over from Marin just to help out with the starts, and she too could not do a course because of recent foot surgery. It is incredible that so many club members offer to volunteer, even though they can’t participate on a course. Michael Behrens, and Allen Crane, an eagle scout, also helped man the start.

Rex Winterbottom provided goodies to eat while discussing route choices after the event.

Scott Aster did his usual excellent job of giving beginner’s clinics, including a large group of scouts from West Sacramento.

Trinka Gillis set up the EP database, and Jeff Lanam and Rosemary Johnson did all of the EP work at the event.

In addition to designing and producing the great medals for the club champions, Kelly Wells supervised the control pick-up. He was assisted with a huge crowd of helpers, including Mikkel Conradi, Nancy Lindeman, Theo Verhoven, Luc Poppe, Steve Gregg, Becky Redfield, and Harold and Penny DeMoss.

Finally, I want to thank my wife Jill, who puts up with me doing this insane sport. She was very supportive, and stuffed all of the maps into the map cases, and helped bring up equipment to the event area, including going down and replacing the coffee maker I dropped and broke. I promised her I would not direct another event for a year.

Evan Custer


Results

Tilden Park

Berkeley, CA
Sunday, December 10, 2006

In addition to the overall results below, you can see the WinSplits (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=7059) (by Class) and the Splits by Course (http://baoc.org/results/r06/Tilden_splits_by_course.html).

Also check out the Course Setter's comments on the courses.

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Results by Course



  Pl  Name(s)                       Club   Class        Time


White Course     (1.1 km, 60 m climb, 9 controls)

   1  Phillip Kopisch               BAOC   M-12          9:19
   2  Daniel Kopisch                BAOC   M-12          9:46
   3  Julia Doubson                 BAOC   F-10         14:58
   4  Barbara Robben                BAOC   Wht-Open     18:51
   5  Masha Konkov                  BAOC   F-10         19:01
   6  Richard Frankland                    Wht-Open     19:11
   7  Danya & Fedor Karpelevitch    BAOC   Wht-Open     21:00
   8  Gina Christopher              BAOC   Wht-Open     22:02
   9  Katie M & Sarah Wm
        Li-Wen Monk                 BAOC   Wht-Open     22:32
  10  Gavin Williams                BAOC   M-10         22:42


Yellow Course    (1.8 km, 75 m climb, 6 controls)

   1  Valeria Fedyk                 BAOC   F-14         26:26
   2  Barbara Robben                BAOC   Yel-Open     28:32
   3  Gavin Williams                BAOC   Yel-Open     31:07
   4  Rebecca & Radar Redfield      BAOC   Yel-Open     31:13
   5  Ann Chimileuwski,
        Viktor Passinsky                   Yel-Open     33:35
   6  Gina Christopher              BAOC   Yel-Open     33:56
   7  Peter Rogers                  BAOC   Yel-Open     35:02
   8  Richard Frankland             BAOC   Yel-Open     37:57
   9  Mike Jones                           Yel-Open     46:00
  10  Group 1, W. Sac. Troop 1      BAOC   Yel-Open   1:05:11
  11  Alexander Krechetov           BAOC   Yel-Open   1:05:59
  12  Group 2, W. Sac. Troop 1      BAOC   Yel-Open   1:16:21


Orange Course    (2.2 km, 150 m climb, 10 controls)

   1  Sharif Taha, Jack Regan              Orn-Open     32:48
   2  Margaret Longstreth           BAOC   Orn-Open     46:53
   3  Dinesh Moorjani               BAOC   Orn-Open     57:21
   4  Jim Hayes                     BAOC   Orn-Open   1:28:10
   5  Rebecca & Radar Redfield             Orn-Open   1:46:17
   6  Linda Grimes                         Orn-Open   2:05:08


Long Orange Course   (4.2 km, 280 m climb, 17 controls)

   1  Steven Smith                         LOrn-Open    50:04
   2  Wes Willett, Anand Varna             LOrn-Open    57:18
   3  Carl Williams                 BAOC   LOrn-Open  1:10:20
   4  John Turner                   BAOC   LOrn-Open  1:15:38
   5  Marie-Josee Parayre           BAOC   LOrn-Open  1:23:23
   6  Stephen Harrison                     LOrn-Open  1:24:48
   7  Jim Fish                      BAOC   LOrn-Open  1:58:24
   8  James Pelster                        LOrn-Open  2:11:44


Brown Course     (2.7 km, 175 m climb, 10 controls)

   1  Misha Lipatov                 BAOC   Brn-Open     38:12
   2  Joe Scarborough               BAOC   M65+         45:24
   3  Jason Hogan                   BAOC   Brn-Open     50:14
   4  Scott Aster                   BAOC   Brn-Open     54:46
   5  Harold DeMoss                 BAOC   M65+         55:58
   6  Nick Corsano                  BAOC   Brn-Open     56:58
   7  Rob Clima, Laura McKeegan     BAOC   Brn-Open   1:03:40
   8  Alan Houser                   BAOC   M65+       1:10:04
   9  John Marold                          Brn-Open   1:18:32
  10  Nancy Lindeman                BAOC   F55+       1:40:40
  11  Rosemary Johnson              BAOC   F55+       1:47:35
  12  Fred Loebl                           Brn-Open   1:55:06
  13  Joel Martinez, Kelly Baker,
        Anna Kennedy                       Brn-Open   2:19:45

      Maria Hasting                 BAOC   Brn-Open     DNF
      Yuri & Valeria Fedyk          BAOC   Brn-Open     DNF


Green Course     (3.9 km, 285 m climb, 13 controls)

   1  Bruce Wolfe                   BAOC   M50+         48:44
   2  Bob Cooley                    BAOC   M50+         52:04
   3  Robin Gustafsson              BAOC   Grn-Open     59:11
   4  Stephanie Maclean             BAOC   F35+         59:14
   5  Rich Parker                   SDO    M50+       1:00:40
   6  Chuck Spalding                BAOC   M50+       1:03:34
   7  Dan Greene                    BAOC   M50+       1:03:36
   8  Michael Behrens               BAOC   Grn-Open   1:03:44
   9  Gavin Wyatt-Mair              BAOC   M50+       1:07:22
  10  Theo Verhoeven                BAOC   Grn-Open   1:09:22
  11  Richard Norbutas                     Grn-Open   1:14:01
  12  Fyodor Konkov                 BAOC   Grn-Open   1:17:07
  13  Mark Blair                    BAOC   M50+       1:24:03
  14  Jeff Lanam                    BAOC   M50+       1:30:15
  15  Luc Poppe                     BAOC   M50+       1:30:19
  16  Mark Rice                     BAOC   Grn-Open   1:33:56
  17  Jennifer Kerr                 GCO    F35+       1:40:44

      Allen Crane                          Grn-Open     DNF


Red Course       (5.3 km, 475 m climb, 19 controls)

   1  Tapio Karras                  BAOC   M35+       1:16:15
   2  Derek Maclean                 BAOC   M35+       1:22:01
   3  Piers Newbery                 BAOC   M35+       1:23:35
   4  Manfred Kopisch               BAOC   M35+       1:24:21
   5  Greg Khanlarov                BAOC   Red-Open   1:32:11
   6  Rick Baraff                          M35+       1:35:37
   7  Joe Maffei                    BAOC   M35+       1:51:05
   8  Bud Laird                     BAOC   M35+       1:53:41
   9  Brad Wetmore                  BAOC   M35+       1:55:39
  10  Brian Schmitz                 BAOC   M35+       1:56:34
  11  Eric Rosenzweig               BAOC   M35+       1:57:21
  12  Kelly Wells                   BAOC   M35+       2:10:02
  13  Bob Strauss                   BAOC   M35+       2:12:14

      Ryan Kellogg                         Red-Open     DNF


Blue Course      (6.9 km, 540 m climb, 24 controls)

   1  James Scarborough             BAOC   M-21+      1:20:02
   2  Mikkel Conradi                BAOC   M-21+      1:21:12
   3  Pippa Whitehouse             JOK,UK  Amazon     1:21:36
   4  Vladimir Gusiatnikov          BAOC   M-21+      1:27:11
   5  Benjamin Legg                 ORCA   M-21+      1:28:40
   6  Francois Leonard              BAOC   M-21+      1:30:20
   7  Andrejus Masalkovas           BAOC   M-21+      1:40:08
   8  Wendell Doman                 BAOC   M-21+      1:47:24
   9  Travis Parker                 BAOC   M-21+      1:51:29
  10  Peter Graham                  BAOC   M-21+      1:55:23
  11  Penny DeMoss                  BAOC   Amazon     1:55:43
  12  Russell Neilson               BAOC   M-21+      1:58:50
  13  Alex Brunette                 BAOC   M-21+      2:08:42
  14  Phil Lovalenti, Eric Baird    BAOC   M-21+      2:35:52
  15  Adam Doti                     BAOC   M-21+      2:46:53

      Eric Nichols                         M-21+        DNF
      Jean-Charles Baritaux    ADOC,France M-21+        DNF
      Roger Pruet                   BAOC   M-21+        DNF

Results by Class


  Pl  Name(s)                       Club      Time


F-10        (White: 1.1 km, 60 m climb, 9 controls)

   1  Julia Doubson                 BAOC      14:58
   2  Masha Konkov                  BAOC      19:01


M-10        (White: 1.1 km, 60 m climb, 9 controls)

   1  Gavin Williams                BAOC      22:42


M-12        (White: 1.1 km, 60 m climb, 9 controls)

   1  Phillip Kopisch               BAOC       9:19
   2  Daniel Kopisch                BAOC       9:46


White Open  (1.1 km, 60 m climb, 9 controls)

   1  Barbara Robben                BAOC      18:51
   2  Richard Frankland                       19:11
   3  Danya & Fedor Karpelevitch    BAOC      21:00
   4  Gina Christopher              BAOC      22:02
   5  Katie M & Sarah Wm
        Li-Wen Monk                 BAOC      22:32


F-14        (Yellow: 1.8 km, 75 m climb, 6 controls)

   1  Valeria Fedyk                 BAOC      26:26


Yellow Open  (1.8 km, 75 m climb, 6 controls)

   1  Barbara Robben                BAOC      28:32
   2  Gavin Williams                BAOC      31:07
   3  Rebecca & Radar Redfield      BAOC      31:13
   4  Ann Chimileuwski,
        Viktor Passinsky                      33:35
   5  Gina Christopher              BAOC      33:56
   6  Peter Rogers                  BAOC      35:02
   7  Richard Frankland             BAOC      37:57
   8  Mike Jones                              46:00
   9  Group 1, W. Sac. Troop 1      BAOC    1:05:11
  10  Alexander Krechetov           BAOC    1:05:59
  11  Group 2, W. Sac. Troop 1      BAOC    1:16:21


Orange Open  (2.2 km, 150 m climb, 10 controls)

   1  Sharif Taha, Jack Regan                 32:48
   2  Margaret Longstreth           BAOC      46:53
   3  Dinesh Moorjani               BAOC      57:21
   4  Jim Hayes                     BAOC    1:28:10
   5  Rebecca & Radar Redfield              1:46:17
   6  Linda Grimes                          2:05:08


Long Orange Open  (4.2 km, 280 m climb, 17 controls)

   1  Steven Smith                            50:04
   2  Wes Willett, Anand Varna                57:18
   3  Carl Williams                 BAOC    1:10:20
   4  John Turner                   BAOC    1:15:38
   5  Marie-Josee Parayre           BAOC    1:23:23
   6  Stephen Harrison                      1:24:48
   7  Jim Fish                      BAOC    1:58:24
   8  James Pelster                         2:11:44


F55+        (Brown: 2.7 km, 175 m climb, 10 controls)

   1  Nancy Lindeman                BAOC    1:40:40
   2  Rosemary Johnson              BAOC    1:47:35


M65+        (Brown: 2.7 km, 175 m climb, 10 controls)

   1  Joe Scarborough               BAOC      45:24
   2  Harold DeMoss                 BAOC      55:58
   3  Alan Houser                   BAOC    1:10:04


Brown Open  (2.7 km, 175 m climb, 10 controls)

   1  Misha Lipatov                 BAOC      38:12
   2  Jason Hogan                   BAOC      50:14
   3  Scott Aster                   BAOC      54:46
   4  Nick Corsano                  BAOC      56:58
   5  Rob Clima, Laura McKeegan     BAOC    1:03:40
   6  John Marold                           1:18:32
   7  Fred Loebl                            1:55:06
   8  Joel Martinez, Kelly Baker,
        Anna Kennedy                        2:19:45

      Maria Hasting                 BAOC      DNF
      Yuri & Valeria Fedyk          BAOC      DNF


F35+        (Green: 3.9 km, 285 m climb, 13 controls)

   1  Stephanie Maclean             BAOC      59:14
   2  Jennifer Kerr                 GCO     1:40:44


M50+        (Green: 3.9 km, 285 m climb, 13 controls)

   1  Bruce Wolfe                   BAOC      48:44
   2  Bob Cooley                    BAOC      52:04
   3  Rich Parker                   SDO     1:00:40
   4  Chuck Spalding                BAOC    1:03:34
   5  Dan Greene                    BAOC    1:03:36
   6  Gavin Wyatt-Mair              BAOC    1:07:22
   7  Mark Blair                    BAOC    1:24:03
   8  Jeff Lanam                    BAOC    1:30:15
   9  Luc Poppe                     BAOC    1:30:19


Green Open  (3.9 km, 285 m climb, 13 controls)

   1  Robin Gustafsson              BAOC      59:11
   2  Michael Behrens               BAOC    1:03:44
   3  Theo Verhoeven                BAOC    1:09:22
   4  Richard Norbutas                      1:14:01
   5  Fyodor Konkov                 BAOC    1:17:07
   6  Mark Rice                     BAOC    1:33:56

      Allen Crane                             DNF


M35+        (Red: 5.3 km, 475 m climb, 19 controls)

   1  Tapio Karras                  BAOC    1:16:15
   2  Derek Maclean                 BAOC    1:22:01
   3  Piers Newbery                 BAOC    1:23:35
   4  Manfred Kopisch               BAOC    1:24:21
   5  Rick Baraff                           1:35:37
   6  Joe Maffei                    BAOC    1:51:05
   7  Bud Laird                     BAOC    1:53:41
   8  Brad Wetmore                  BAOC    1:55:39
   9  Brian Schmitz                 BAOC    1:56:34
  10  Eric Rosenzweig               BAOC    1:57:21
  11  Kelly Wells                   BAOC    2:10:02
  12  Bob Strauss                   BAOC    2:12:14


Red Open    (5.3 km, 475 m climb, 19 controls)

   1  Greg Khanlarov                BAOC    1:32:11

      Ryan Kellogg                            DNF


Amazon      (Blue: 6.9 km, 540 m climb, 24 controls)

   1  Pippa Whitehouse             JOK,UK   1:21:36
   2  Penny DeMoss                  BAOC    1:55:43


M-21+      (Blue: 6.9 km, 540 m climb, 24 controls)

   1  James Scarborough             BAOC    1:20:02
   2  Mikkel Conradi                BAOC    1:21:12
   3  Vladimir Gusiatnikov          BAOC    1:27:11
   4  Benjamin Legg                 ORCA    1:28:40
   5  Francois Leonard              BAOC    1:30:20
   6  Andrejus Masalkovas           BAOC    1:40:08
   7  Wendell Doman                 BAOC    1:47:24
   8  Travis Parker                 BAOC    1:51:29
   9  Peter Graham                  BAOC    1:55:23
  10  Russell Neilson               BAOC    1:58:50
  11  Alex Brunette                 BAOC    2:08:42
  12  Phil Lovalenti, Eric Baird    BAOC    2:35:52
  13  Adam Doti                     BAOC    2:46:53

      Eric Nichols                            DNF
      Jean-Charles Baritaux    ADOC,France    DNF
      Roger Pruet                   BAOC      DNF

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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)